THE AMBIGUITY OF MORAL EXCELLENCE: A Response to Aaron Stalnaker's “Virtue as Mastery”

This response draws on Saba Mahmood's work on Muslim subjectivities in order to consider how Stalnaker's conceptualization of virtue might be applied to non-Confucian sources. I argue that when applied cross-culturally, Stalnaker's revised definition of “skillful virtue” raises normat...

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1. VerfasserIn: Bucar, Elizabeth M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2010, Band: 38, Heft: 3, Seiten: 429-435
weitere Schlagwörter:B moral ambiguity
B Islam
B Virtue
B Piety
B embodied practices
B cross-cultural ethics
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Zusammenfassung:This response draws on Saba Mahmood's work on Muslim subjectivities in order to consider how Stalnaker's conceptualization of virtue might be applied to non-Confucian sources. I argue that when applied cross-culturally, Stalnaker's revised definition of “skillful virtue” raises normative and metaethical questions about what counts as a skill versus a mere bodily practice, the process by how skill is acquired, and how we can both allow for the ambiguity of skills and continue to make constructive arguments about them.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2010.00437.x